Fearless Quote by Jane Kenyon

The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so difficult to…

— Jane Kenyon

The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible…

— Jean Cocteau

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

— Audre Lorde

“a poet can always find something good to write about.”

— Colleen Houck

“The job of the poet—which is somewhat quixotic or Sisyphean—is to express things that one may have sensed or felt but never put into…

— Paul S. Atkins

A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going…

— Salman Rushdie

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

— Philip Levine

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey